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The Railway Children

Edith Nesbit

The Railway Children

Paper book: €21.99

Digital: €5.99

Original publication
1906
Monolingual
12 June 2026
Pages
441
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Children's Literature, Adventure
Moods
Feel comforted, Escape it all
Translated from
English

Book summary

One evening, two gentlemen come to see Father, who leaves with them and does not come back. His three children, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis, leave London with their mother for a little house in the country, near a railway line. Every morning they wave at the passing train, and an old gentleman at the window ends up waving back.

The mystery of the missing father hangs over this tender story full of adventures, in which the children even stop a train by waving red petticoats.

Simply written, with plenty of dialogue, the novel is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

三人の子どもが列車を止めなければ。ロバータ、ピーター、フィリスの三人は、線路を見下ろす高台を歩いている。突然、岩や木が線路の上に崩れ落ちる。まもなく列車が全速力でやって来る。止めるには赤い合図が要る。そこで姉妹は赤いフランネルのペチコートを脱ぎ、三人はそれで小さな旗を六本作る。

The world of the book

汽車の走る田園。当時、蒸気機関車はどの村も大都市と結んでいた。ロンドンから来た三人の子どもにとって、すべてが新しい。小さな駅と駅員のパークスさん、丘に掘られたトンネル、そして毎日家のすぐ下を通る汽車。

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